Guion, David W. (David Wendell), 1892-1981

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Guion, David W

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Guion, David Wendel Fentress 1895-

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Guion, David W. 1892-1981 (Wendell),

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American composer.

From the description of David Wendell Guion Collection ca. 1902-1937. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481668

Composer, pianist. Born in 1892 in Ballinger, Texas. Received musical training in Texas, Illinois, and Vienna, Austria. Taught music at various institutions, including Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas; Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; and Chicago Musical College. Compositions include "Home on the Range," "Lonesome Whistler," and musical scores for "Green Grow the Lilacs" and "Main Street."

From the description of Papers, 1914-1975, 1914-1937. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24324234

David Wendell Guion was born in Ballinger, Texas, on 15 December 1892 to John I. and Armour Fentress Guion. His earliest musical influences included the cowboy culture of his rancher father and the songs of his family's African-American household servants. Piano studies took Guion to Vienna, Austria, in 1912 to study with Leopold Godowski at the Royal Conservatory of Music, but he was forced to return to Texas in 1914 by the onset of World War I.

Guion supported himself by teaching and composing and moved to New York in 1929. There an association with publishers G. Schirmer, Inc. brought new popularity for his arrangements of cowboy songs and spirituals. His biggest hit, Home on the Range, emerged from his New York production Prairie Echoes . Guion hosted a weekly radio program entitled Hearing America with David Guion and later, David Guion and his Orchestra with an NBC studio orchestra. His larger work, Ballet Primitive, "Shingandi," was originally intended to be film music for Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan . When "talkies" changed the film landscape, however, Guion instead premiered Shingandi in 1931 in a different orchestration with a prominent jazz group, the Paul Whiteman Band. The work eventually toured as a ballet production with Dallas's Kosloff Ballet Company. In 1950 Guion was commissioned to write the suite Texas for the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and he completed the piece in 1952.

In addition to Home on the Range, Guion is best known for his arrangements of Turkey in the Straw, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and The Arkansas Traveler, and for his piano pieces The Harmonica Player and The Scissors Grinder. He captured Texas cowboy culture in tunes such as Ride, Cowboy, Ride, Ol' Paint, The Bold Vaquero, and Lonesome Song of the Plains. His piano arrangements caught the interest of pianist and composer Percy Grainger, who included Guion's work in his own concerts to great acclaim. Guion's affinity for African-American spirituals appears in both his own songwriting and in collaboration with lyricist Marie Wardall in the opera Suzanne . He also worked with lyricist Jessie B. Rittenhouse, a poet and anthologist in New York.

Guion lived on a Pennsylvania estate he called "Home on the Range" from 1937 until moving to Dallas in 1965. He taught at Howard Payne University, Fort Worth Polytechnic College, Fairmont Conservatory, Chicago Musical College, Daniel Baker College, and Southern Methodist University. Guion died in Dallas on 17 October 1981 and was buried in his hometown of Ballinger. In 1987 he was honored by a permanent exhibit of his personal items and recordings at the International Festival Institute in Round Top, Texas.

From the guide to the David Wendell Guion Collection TXRC03-A9., ca. 1902-1937, (The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center)

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Musicians

Band music, Arranged

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Cowboys

Cowboys

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Texas

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Ballinger (Tex.)

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